Tell me Borzakovskiy doesn’t suddenly look exactly like Wariner
http://iaaf.org/news/kind=2/newsid=40155.html#isinbayeva+borzakovskiy+standouts+moscow+russian+challenge
Haha damn thats a replica 
lol yeh, when I saw that pic a week ago, I double-looked. They’re almost exact mirror images. Hopefully they both leave Osaka with gold to…
i wonder who would win a 600m race between them?
i’d bouch wariner, but what a race it would be…
Wariner would smash him. Her’d just sit and strike off the final bend. Great 400 guys seem to be able to go out about as far as 600 and hold it together pretty well. A lot of great 800 guys are only starting to come into their own from there. Then again, I wouldn’t want to have run any of my 400 guys against Juantorena over 600. :eek:
Kitkat1, they should have been in great " DAnger", isn’t it?rssrrs
Thats the kind of challenges we need in track. Distances that are not contested in champs but used to capture the imagination of the general public.
yES, THAT’S aLBERTO’S MIDDLE NAME. Literally and metaphorically 
Hell yeh. Imagine match-ups between current athletes:
over 150m
wariner, spearmon, carter, gay, merritt, bolt and clement over 300m
wariner, borzakovskiy and others over 600m
xiang, arnold, clement, jackson, and others over 200m hurdles
and alternative relays such as world youths medlay relay distances - 100-100-200-400
200-400-800-1600
100-200-300-400-600-1000
and so on…
and also other ‘mini’ multi-events over the space of a few hours :eg:
LJ-HJ
SP-Dis
100-110h
100-200-400
100-LJ-SP-600
110h-400h
Seb coe i am led to believe held the Wr for some time? And he only ever did the 600m like 1 or 2 times?? Or am i thinking of the 1000,m?
Seb had done a 46 in a relay.
Brozakovskiy i heard is more of a 400m speed guy, and the reason he holds off so late, is that if he tried to Stay up with the pace, he would burn himself off and be unable to finnish. So he keeps the pace off, delaying the Lactic bite for as long as possable. It was a few yrs ago i heard that, i could be wrong!
Coe ran 2:13.4 (WR) for 1,000m in July 1980, his 800m WR was 1:42.33 and 1500m was 3:32.03. His 400m PB was 46.85…I’m reading a book on him right now
well, johnny gray obliterated the record sometime a while back, whether it was coe’s or not before i’m not sure, but i thinkk it was lee evans. gray ran like 1:13? opening in 47 for the first quarter.
lee evans ran a 600 world record at echo summit before the 68 games, he had wanted the pace at like 46, but they came through in 48 or such, not sure what his final time was.
coes 1k WR got smashed by noah ngeny about 10 years back, it was the last mark of the UK distance heyday in the books.
him and the american #1 for the season before webb, nick symmonds try to run evenish paced races in imitation of dave wottle(1972 OG gold, best last 100 of a race ever), i think you’re right on the theory about why they do it, but with Kipkiter opening sub 50 for his WR, and coe and cruz both positive splitting the previous world records, saying nothing of junouerta’s front running, they dont really seem to be following the path of least resistiance.
edit: i think borzas open pr’s are like 22.high and 46.high from the mid/earlyish 1990’s. its somewhere buried on the iaaf site.
As a 19 year old he ran a 45.84, which is was a national junior record. The same year he ran a 1:44.33 during the semifinals in the Olympic Games. That was a arena junior record.
http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/athlete=137777/BioPopUp.html yep, that with a 22.5 that was indoors from the year before.
also in my previous post, id said his prs in the short stuff had come from the mid/early 90’s, i’d ment mid/late 90’s, and it was actually 99/2000. i’d forgotten his age.
He must have been a very talented young kid. As a 17 year old 47.87 at 400 and 1:47.71 at 800.